escaso

Galician

Alternative forms

• escasso (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escasso, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *excarsus, for excerptus, from Latin excerpō. Cognate with Portuguese escasso, Spanish escaso, English scarce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkaso/ [es̺ˈkɑ.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -aso
• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧so

Adjective

escaso (feminine escasa, masculine plural escasos, feminine plural escasas)

1. scarce, rare
2. sparse, scanty
3. foolish, injudicious
4. niggardly, miserly
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 227:

     quen foy couardo ou quen ardido, ou foy mao ou bõo, ou quen foy uilão ou paação, ou feo ou aposto, ou arrizado ou flaco, ou barnesco ou escasso, ou mãsso ou sañudo

     who was coward or who was hardy, or who was bad or good, or who was villein or palatial, or ugly or handsome, or vigorous or feeble, or generous or niggardly, or gentle or wicked

Derived terms

• escasamente
• escaseza

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escasso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escaso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escaso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escaso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escarpsus, from Late Latin excarpsus (“rare”), from *excarpere (“pluck out”), from classical Latin excerpere. Related to English scarce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkaso/ [esˈka.so]
• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧so

Adjective

escaso (feminine escasa, masculine plural escasos, feminine plural escasas)

1. scarce, limited, scant, meager, meagre, skimpy, rare, insufficient, slight, slim
2. low, little, small, poor, weak (in quantity, degree, size, rate or estimate)
3. sparse, scanty, thin

Derived terms

• escaso margen (“narrow margin, little room”)

 

Derived terms

• escasear

 

Related terms

• escasez

 

Further reading

• “escaso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10